Anticipated $10,000 in awards

Deena Altman & Helen Shafer Garcia, Co-Jurors for Artwork Selection & Awards

Deena Altman spent many years as the Vice President of Marketing for her national horticultural company, Altman Plants. She guided the marketing and graphic development of many plant products, including nationwide plant brands for home improvement chains. She is now a full-time artist, following her passion for painting. Within 13 years, she achieved signature status in several prestigious societies, including The American Watercolor Society, The Watercolor Honor Society, and The San Diego Watercolor Society. She has also served on the board of The National Watercolor Society. Her paintings have been juried into numerous museums and international exhibitions, including the prestigious American Watercolor Society International Exhibition in New York, the MEAM Museum in Barcelona, The Springfield Art Museum, our own Signature Exhibition, and a solo show of her 8-painting series, “Female Rising”, at the Oceanside Museum of Art.

Helen Shafer Garcia is a painter (watercolor and book arts), ceramicist, and award winning illustrator. For more than 40 years, Helen’s watercolor illustrations have graced the covers of brochures, garden articles and advertisements for a number of international resorts and magazines. Her awards include four San Diego Press Club First Place Awards of Excellence in Illustration for San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles Magazine. Helen holds a B.A. degree in Fine Arts with an emphasis in illustration and ceramics.  She is a signature member of the San Diego Watercolor Society and teaches college level watercolor, book arts, and mixed media workshops internationally and across the US. She is also the department head of painting, drawing, and mixed media at Fallbrook School of the Arts. 

Eligibility

This Show is only open only to artists who hold Signature Membership status in one or more U.S. watercolor/water media societies or associations.

• Entries must be original, created entirely by the artist, and not derived from any published images. All reference material must be captured by the artist and should not be copyrighted or published.

• Paintings must be water-based media (watercolor, acrylic, gouache, casein, or tempera) on paper, synthetic paper, paperboard, wrapped canvas, or cradled wood panel. Yupo and Tyvek are acceptable.

• No water-soluble oils are allowed. Other non-water-based media may be integrated but cover no more than 20% of the painting.

• No digital art, AI-generated art, workshop/class art, photography, prints, or reproductions will be accepted.

• Paintings altered in any way after entry is submitted will be disqualified.

• Entries must be recent works completed within the last two years, entirely the work of the artist, and not shown previously in a Fallbrook Art Center exhibition.

• All paintings must be available for sale. Once entered, the selling price cannot be altered.

Size Limits

Minimum Image: 140 square inches, no side less than 10”

Maximum outside frame: 44” x 44”

Framing requirements

Paintings that do not align with these standards will be disqualified.

Unframed painting standards

• Unsealed paintings on paper must be framed and matted, protected under rigid acrylic, ready for hanging, and separated from the acrylic by mats or spacers. Non-glare acrylic is not acceptable.

• Paintings on paper not protected by acrylic must be suitably sealed.

• Paintings on stretched canvas or cradled wooden panels must be between 1 3/8 and 2 inches in depth.

• Paintings on stretched canvas or cradled wooden panels may be framed in simple wood or metal or be unframed with edges painted as a continuation of the painting or in black, gray, or white.

Framed painting standards

• Simple sturdy (not carved, ornate or embellished) metal or wood frames of a single color only.

• Frame width cannot exceed 1.5” inches.

• Use D rings to attach wire - no eye hooks.

• Use multi-strand wire, looped through D rings with ends twisted and securely attached.

• Paintings must be protected under sturdy acrylics, such as Plexiglas. No glass is permitted.

Matting Standards

• Mats must be clean, white, off-white, gray or black. Colored liner mats are acceptable.

• Paintings may be floated with spacers

Fallbrook Art Center reserves the right to withhold any work from display, including unsuitably presented, or misrepresented work.

Sales

Paintings must be for sale. Exhibited works will be consigned for sale at the price submitted on the inventory form. Fallbrook Art Center will handle all sales, collection, reporting, and payment of applicable sales tax. Artists are responsible for all tax reporting.

Commission on Sales

Fallbrook Art Center will retain 40% of the retail price and the artist will receive 60% of the retail price.

Payment to the Artist

Commission checks are issued on a monthly basis. Total commission for the month will be paid out to the artist by check by the end of the first week of the following month.

Insurance

Works selected for the Show are covered under Fallbrook Art Center’s Fine Art Insurance Policy for stated value less the 40% commission. Substantiation of stated value is the responsibility of the Artist.

Use Rights

By submitting your artist entry form, artists whose submissions are chosen for the Show grant Fallbrook Art Center the right to use their images for the purpose of marketing the show. Artists grant the use of their image(s) as stated without further contact or compensation. We reserve the right to photograph work for publicity purposes.

Shipping

Fallbrook Art Center

103 S Main Ave

Fallbrook, CA 92028

• Accepted artists will receive specific delivery instructions.

• All shipped paintings are subject to a $50 shipping & handling fee.

• Inbound and outbound shipping costs and insurance are the responsibility of the artist.

• Please package your work to ensure it won’t be damaged during shipment.

• Fallbrook Art Center is not responsible for any damage incurred during shipping.

• A prepaid return label is required for all shipped paintings. Unsold paintings will be shipped back to the artist at the end of the exhibition.

Any shipped painting without a prepaid return label will be subject to an additional $50 administration fee.

How to submit an entry

• All entries must be submitted through our online form.

• You may submit 2 works.

• For selection, digital photos submitted must be JPEG or PNG format, between 1MB-5MB in size.

• The image must be of the painting alone, not including the frame or any additional background.

Entry Fee

For non-Guild artists: $65 non-refundable entry fee due at the time of form completion.

For Guild artists: $55 non-refundable entry fee due at the time of form completion.

Accepted entries

• Only one painting per artist may be juried into the exhibition.

• All accepted artists will receive an email from the Exhibitions Manager, Arida Dhanaswar, with further instructions and deadlines for delivery, no later than February 11. 

• The delivery window is February 12 - March 7. If delivering by hand, the Exhibitions Manager will call the artist to set up an appointment time. Shipped pieces must be received during this period. Paintings not received by March 7 will be disqualified.

Opening Night Reception & Awards Ceremony

Artists are strongly encouraged to arrive at 3:30pm, the same time as our Friends members, to meet them and have the opportunity to talk about your art. This event is free and open to the public from 4pm-6pm. Awards will be presented at this time, or mailed afterwards.

Questions

Email our Exhibitions Manager, Arida Dhanaswar, arida@fallbrookcenterforthearts.org, or call Fallbrook Art Center, 760-728-1414